Full name: The Devil's Cup: A History of the World According to Coffee

Author: Stewart Lee Allen Year: 1999 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: History, Travel Purchase/reserch links: Amazon Goodreads Google Books LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780345441492 0345441494

Can you handle mornings without a brew? No? Multiply that. Imagine an entire population under a cloud of lethargy, unable to kick start their days. Now introduce coffee. Bingo. The brain moves into over-drive and it's time for empire building. So goes Stewart Lee Allen's crazy theory. Only thing is, after retracing coffee's journey to world domination - by train, rickshaw, cargo freighter and donkey - he has plenty of evidence to back it up. Stewart Lee Allen has filtered out the richest beans from coffee's hot and frothy history . . . serving up a steamy, high-energy brew that will stimulate you more than a triple-strength espresso. As they might say in Starbucks: 'Enjoy.' Similar books: Uncommon Grounds by Mark Pendergrast Coffee by Antony Wild The Path Between the Seas by David McCullough The Island at the Center of the World by Russell Shorto Tocqueville's Discovery of America by Leo Damrosch Travels into Bokhara by Alexander Burnes Secret Tibet by Fosco Maraini Calcutta by Geoffrey Moorhouse The City of Florence by R. W. B. Lewis An Edible History of Humanity by Tom Standage Consider the Fork by Bee Wilson The Potato by Larry Zuckerman From Hardtack to Home Fries by Barbara Haber The True History of Chocolate by Sophie D. Coe Spice by Jack Turner Salt by Mark Kurlansky Food in History by Reay Tannahill Moveable Feasts by Sarah Murray Something from the Oven by Laura Shapiro Why We Eat What We Eat by Raymond Sokolov